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WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 828 Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 828

Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence

828 Executive officer may be taken to have committed offence

(1) If a corporation commits an offence against a deemed executive liability provision, each executive officer of the corporation is taken to have also committed the offence if—
(a) the officer authorised or permitted the corporation’s conduct constituting the offence; or
(b) the officer was, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in the corporation’s conduct.
(2) The executive officer may be proceeded against for, and convicted of, the offence against the deemed executive liability provision whether or not the corporation has been proceeded against for, or convicted of, the offence.
(3) This section does not affect either of the following—
(a) the liability of the corporation for the offence against the deemed executive liability provision;
(b) the liability, under the Criminal Code , chapter 2 , of any person, whether or not the person is an executive officer of the corporation, for the offence against the deemed executive liability provision.
(4) In this section—


"deemed executive liability provision" means any of the following provisions—
†¢ section 28 (7)
†¢ section 452
†¢ section 460 (3)
†¢ section 808 (1)
†¢ section 808 (2)
†¢ section 808 (3) .